Bulgarian Finance Minister promises ‘Panama Papers’ probe
Bulgarian Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov has promised checks of the origin of the funds and tax payments by Bulgarians named
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Month: April 2016
Controversy continues over Bulgaria’s ‘migrant hunters’
Bulgaria’s Interior Minister, the leader of a nationalist party and the leader of a right-wing opposition party are among the
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Bulgaria annual CPI records 1.5% deflation in March 2016
Bulgaria’s consumer price index (CPI) recorded 1.5 per cent per cent annual deflation in March 2016, while the monthly data showed
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UN begins hearings of Secretary-General candidates
The United Nations begins on April 12 2016 three days of hearings of the eight candidates so far for the
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Museum of the History of Polish Jews named European Museum of the Year
The Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw has won the prestigious European Museum of the Year
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UNHCR: Idomeni violence ‘matter of great worry’
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed concern about the April 10 violence at the border between
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View from Sofia: Fear and loathing
Fear. The word travelled across Bulgarian media and between the lines of reports and political speeches in the days after
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Bulgarian prosecutors start pre-trial proceedings over ‘migrant hunters’
Prosecutors in the Bulgarian border town of Malko Turnovo have started pre-trial proceedings in connection with unlawful detention of foreign
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Looking even further back at Bulgaria
My book, Herodotus: The Gnome of Sofia, is a humorous account of a British diplomat and his fall from grace,
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